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Great stuff, Curnivore! Glad I could check whether or not the 880 fireblast dmg beats the 870 fb cast time (it does). Awesome work!

For trash Crit/mastery, aim for 60%+ crit For bosses in stronger M+ and raids go Crit/haste/versa/mastery That said, keep in mind to always have about 8% haste regardless, as it lets you squeeze one more spell into combustion. To answer your question, more crit is ALWAYS better, up to 85% crit. For ...

YELLO, new BiS!

Basically an execute below 30% .

Sephuz does, I have about 2k on mine, but then again it's a waste of a legendary slot if you have anything better (proud owner of sephuz, chest and feet... imma go for prydaz next, to complete my shitty legendary collection).

On can always hope we get the floes back, however, the boots are still terrible and the scorch talent is retarded, seeing exactly how we already have a similar one in our artifacts. They are trying to fix what wasn't broken, thereby fixing nothing and breaking more things. A 20% buff to scorch means...

The solution most mages probably want is to keep ice floes.

Well, you have the same shitty legendaries I have.... your Crit is ok, but try to get to 65%, it's a magical place. Get 8% haste imho, to account for lag. But to be fair, your gear looks, ok, proper priorities and everything. Maybe the weap is a little low, but that's rng on relic drops. 2 things: p...

1. Versa and mastery are not that important in single target fights, haste softcap is 1.8k - ~8% and hardcap is ~22%. Crit > int > haste in general.

2. Wrong section, should have posted this in Q&A.

3. You didn't link your armory.

Well, at least right now you can just pick another talent than ice floes if you hate it so much. I don't get people who hat ice floes tho. I mean... why? Oh no, you have to (more or less passively) manage the CD, and it helps you deal damage while avoiding it. The real gift is being able to cast it ...

Read it before it was posted here. Lots of prattling about how the guy is a hardcore player, however his points about mages are solid, and the rest is very well written. They SAID they weren't nerfing fire, yet long-term players know that what is posted/released on the PTR more often than not makes ...

Wrote a comprehensive post on the subject, but it's probably biased. Too long, don't read: My ideas for the fire spec are as follows: Lower initial crit from molten armor, instead molten armor draws crit from your int, scaled so it adds somewhere up to 30% crit from int at 890+ int levels. Keep crit...

Softcap for crit is around 22k crit rating, check the general fire mage guide. That said, I wouldn't mind even 80% crit. Makes almost sure you keep chaining fb+pb combos in your 'conserve' phase, and right now makes for some amazing ignites from combustion. Eat crit food, whether or not it shows 62%...

1. 869 or not, 51% crit is dogshit. 2. Is it just me or are you running meteor? Get kindling. 3. You go into your second combustion without preparation. Get 2 stacks of fire blast, make sure you have one phoenix at least, make sure flame on is off CD. That is, plan on making the second combustion th...

http://www.thedailyblink.com/comics/2013-03-11-429.jpg To be fair I have been consistently beaten by a BM hunter (by 10-20%) in both dungeons and raid, but aside from that I'm usually top 3 in my raid group (not the hardcorest crowd though). He is one of the top 100 geared hunters west though, whil...

Don't worry guys, no need to stack on me, I can Ice Block the befoulment! Err... rez anyone? Ahh, who cares, I can just iceblock nythendra's mechanics during phase two. 25 stacks of infected later on mythic difficulty. That said, I successfully tanked one of the dragons on LFR (don't... just don't a...

Don't worry guys, the whine brigade on the forums is working on an uproar. http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20752335041" target="_blank even got a CM reply, not that that means much (and what he says is nonsense in a large part, listening to trade chat to see if mage is 'OP') Either way, fro...

Fire mages have an interesting stat priority, however: A 5% damage increase that you can dump into the burst via macro (get hot streak, use Thumb, rune, then combust) is probably a major flat increase in DPS, seeing how a large amount of our damage, is done in those 10 seconds and the ignite from th...

Flame patch doesn't apply to meteor, afaik. If it's only on flamestrike, this seems awful. Having to flamestrike every 8 seconds instead of pyro.

Well, in 7.1.5 we will have: head, neck, chest, bracers, gloves, belt, boots, two rings, and a trinket. I'd wager the new best to worst list, according to the current changes, is something along the lines of: Gloves > TW ring > Helmet = Belt > Sephuz's ring > new trinket > bracers > chest > neck > N...

Here's some quick napkin math with no haste: (EDIT) In 4.5 sec a pyro is castable. In the same time, you can cast a fireball + pyro (2.25s+1.5s GCD) in 3.75 sec, and start casting another fireball. So, we get a ratio of 5/6 - if you hardcast 5 pyros - 22.5 seconds, which is the same as 6 fireball+py...